The Middle East Water Question : Hydropolitics and the Global Economy (Paperback, New ed)

Part 1 MENA water resources, allocation, management and perception: water optimists and water pessimists - insiders and outsiders and an analytical framework; the resource - the supply. Part 2 Economic and environmental imperatives ignored - and why they are ignored: water is an economic resource - the economist's view; water is not an economic resource - the political economy of some MENA waters; water, development and the environment. Part 3 Water - international relations and law: water in regional and international relations; water law and international water law in the Middle East and North Africa. Part 4 The future: the future role of water in the Middle East and North African society.